Archive 2009 – Three Palm Software

New Integration Saves Time for Radiologists

Seattle, Washington – November 20, 2009

Mammography Reporting System, Inc. (MRS) just released an integration between the flagship MRS Reporting software 6.7E and Three Palm Software’s (TPS) WorkstationOne.

The seamless integration allows radiologists reporting mammograms to enter their findings directly into the TPS WorkstationOne. Those findings flow directly into MRS 6.7E with no additional user intervention. In the case of a negative finding, the radiologist can sign off on the report immediately. If there is a finding, the report can be viewed on MRS and electronically signed. This eliminates duplicate data entry and makes it easy to report and track breast cases. All findings generated in WorkstationOne, including BI-RADS codes and detailed finding descriptors, to populate directly into the MRS database.

“Our goals with the product integrations for both companies was to reduce duplicate data entry by radiologists for increased accuracy and decreased time spent,” says MRS CEO Mark Morris. “According to the radiologists who have viewed the integration, we absolutely achieved that goal. One said it would reduce his reporting time by 25% to 40% per positive finding.”

Patrick Heffernan, CEO of TPS, says: “Efficiency and accuracy are vital to screening mammography. Integration between imaging and reporting will allow radiologists to focus on image interpretation, in order to be able to achieve the highest level of efficiency and accuracy. This will become the standard approach in the near future. TPS and MRS have rapidly developed a solution that provides this capability to radiologists now. We are pleased to be leading the market in this direction.”

Both products will be a highlighted solution on display at the TPS booth #1506 in Chicago at RSNA in December.

Mammography Reporting System, Inc. (MRS) is the leading provider of breast procedure information systems in the United States. Thousands of facilities world-wide track and report patients on their systems, and they are the most widely used breast procedure reporting and tracking systems in the world. MRS has been a leader in breast health software for nearly two decades and is a trusted Microsoft Gold Certified Partner as well as an Intel Software Partner. MRS has been recognized in 2009 as one of the fastest growing and largest technology companies in Washington.

WorkstationOne™ is a diagnostic breast imaging workstation software. WorkstationOne obtains breast imaging screening or diagnosis exams from PACS or Modalities; displays and manipulates the images for radiologists to perform interpretation task. WorkstationOne is developed with the goal of assisting radiologists to read digital mammograms efficiently. WorkstationOne supports IHE integration profiles; has the capability to store and retrieve user markup in an interchangeable format; as well as the ability to generate customizable recall and screening reports, which can also interface with a reporting system to generate an interpretation report. WorkstationOne also supports media exchange, film printing and 10-bit grayscale display on suitable monitors.

For more information or to set up an interview, contact Angelica Schultz, MRS Marketing/PR at 1-800-633-6145 x 8762 or by email at marketing@mrsys.com.

Three Palm Software announces new features for breast imaging workstation

Los Gatos, 18 November, 2009.

Three Palm Software today announced the new release, version 1.4, of its mammography reading software – WorkstationOne™. This new release will be shown at RSNA 2009, in the company’s booth – 1506.

The 1.4 release of WorkstationOne adds the following capabilities:

Bi-directional reporting systems integration, with automatic population of the report (requires a companion system, such as that from MRS).
Ability to display enhanced Mammography CAD reports, including dynamic operating points and detailed CAD processing information.
Expanded suite of plug-in packages, including visualization for MR, CT and NM; breast ultrasound CAD (with Medipattern); breast MRI CAD (with iCAD); breast MRI analysis and interventional guidance (with Sentinelle); web-based document viewing; and dictation system integration.
Integrated support for display of mammography tomosynthesis images, and associated mammography CAD reports.
High-speed 10bit grey-scale image display with new graphics cards from NVIDIA and Matrox.
Multi-reader/multi-machine peer-to-peer work-list synchronization.

The company is also showing a work in progress version of WorkstationOne in the “Reading Room of the Future” area, highlighting “Communicative CAD”.

These new capabilities build on the existing WorkstationOne – which was already a full-featured breast imaging workstation, with an emphasis on efficient reviewing workflow and expert viewing methodologies such as Tabar’s systematic viewing masks. WorkstationOne supports IHE mammography image profile and the display of CAD markers as well as GSPS graphic annotation. WorkstationOne is a software product that can be installed on an off-the-shelf general purpose computer with one or two gray-scale high resolution monitors and one color monitor.

Broadwest and Three Palm Software announce partnership.

Denver, Colorado, and Los Gatos, California, 26 October, 2009

Broadwest and Three Palm Software today announced that they have signed a partnership agreement, in which Broadwest will distribute Three Palm Software’s WorkstationOne™ product. WorkstationOne will be on display at RSNA’09 in booth 1506.

Under this agreement, Broadwest will distribute Three Palm Software’s WorkstationOne product to customers in the US.

“We are looking forward to a long and prosperous cooperation with Three Palm Software”, said Jack Donovan, CEO of Broadwest. “This partnership will allow us to offer a state of the art digital mammography viewing station to our customer base.”

Patrick Heffernan, CEO of Three Palm Software comments “Broadwest has a long history providing equipment for analog mammography. This agreement is a good match for both companies – WorkstationOne allows Broadwest to expand upon their experience in analog mammography and to help their customers transition to a digital environment.”

WorkstationOne is a full-featured breast imaging workstation, with an emphasis on efficient reviewing workflow and expert viewing methodologies such as Tabar’s systematic viewing masks. WorkstationOne supports IHE mammography image profile and the display of CAD markers as well as GSPS graphic annotation. WorkstationOne is a software product that can be installed on an off-the-shelf general purpose computer with one or two gray-scale high resolution monitors and one color monitor.

About Broadwest

Broadwest Corporation has been a leader in the field of mammography viewing equipment for over 20 years – offering a range of creative viewing devices that have improved the practice of film and digital interpretation in the U.S. and abroad. Broadwest products have helped set the standards later incorporated by the American College of Radiology and the FDA’s Mammography Quality Standards Act for mammography film viewing. Broadwest has a large base of customers in the US and Canada for motorized mammography viewers.

Media Contact:

Jack Donovan, 800-232-2948 or 303-722-1500

E-mail: info@broadwest.com

Web: http://www.broadwest.com

Dexela to supply NovaRad with WorkstationOne digital mammography viewer

16 July 2009

Dexela Limited (London, UK) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with NovaRad (American Fork, Utah) to supply WorkstationOne software as part of NovaRad’s new mammography image viewer solution.

WorkstationOne is developed by Dexela’s strategic software partner Three Palm Software and employs advanced “click once” screening workflow with expert viewing methodology and extensive PACS integration features to provide a highly efficient FFDM vendor independent solution. WorkstationOne supports multi-modality viewing and CAD structured reports and can generate recall and screening reports that can be emailed directly from the viewer or integrated with an information system. The application conforms extensively with IHE standards and now includes multiple language support infrastructure. Future Tomosynthesis functionality is planned for release in late 2009.

Metaltronica and Three Palm Software announce partnership.

Rome, Italy, and Los Gatos, California, 26 May, 2009

Metaltronica, S.r.l. and Three Palm Software today announced that they have signed a partnership agreement, in which Metaltronica will distribute Three Palm Software’s WorkstationOne™ and CadOne™ products as part of its digital mammography product suite. Under this agreement, Metaltronica will have an exclusive right to distribute Three Palm Software’s products to Metaltronica customers and Metaltronica distributors world-wide. As part of this collaboration, Three Palm Software is developing a number of specific features to optimize use with Metaltronica’s digital mammography system.

“We are looking forward to a long and prosperous cooperation with Three Palm Software”, said Stefano Gioia, Technical Manager at Metaltronica. “This partnership will allow us to offer a suite of exclusive options for our new digital mammography system. Three Palm Software’s extensive experience and expertise in this domain, allows us to compete with our larger competitors.” Patrick Heffernan, CEO of Three Palm Software comments “Metaltronica has a long history in the analog mammography domain and is now introducing a digital mammography product that competes with those of much larger companies. This is a natural match for Three Palm Software – our products complement Metaltronica’s expertise, allowing them to get a complete digital Mammography product suite to market rapidly, with functionality that is second to none.”

HELIANTHUS is a complete mammography solution optimized for digital imaging in breast cancer screening and diagnostic procedures. HELIANTHUS can be purchased with an optional professional workstation – which is WorkstationOne from Three Palm Software. Mammography Computer Aided Detection is another option with the purchase of HELIANTHUS, and this software option is the CadOne system from Three Palm Software. A tomosynthesis option will be available in a later release.

About Metaltronica, S.r.l. – Metaltronica is a manufacturer of X-ray equipment and has operated on the national and international market for more than 30 years.

Media Contact: +39 06 66160206

E-mail: metaltronica@metaltronica.com

Web: http://www.metaltronica.it

Medi-Future and Three Palm Software announce partnership.

Seoul, South Korea, and Los Gatos, California, 23 March, 2009

Medi-Future, Inc and Three Palm Software today announced that they have signed a partnership agreement, in which Medi-Future will distribute Three Palm Software’s WorkstationOne™ product as part of its mammography product suite.

Under this agreement, Medi-Future will be distributing Three Palm Software’s WorkstationOne™ with Brestige – its new digital mammography system which is being introduced to select markets in May of 2009.

“We are pleased to be working with Three Palm Software”, comments Jeong-Chai Lee, President and CEO of Medi-Future. “Our goal is to offer the best products for breast imaging, and WorkstationOne is the leading breast imaging workstation on the market”.

Patrick Heffernan, CEO of Three Palm Software reports “Medi-Future is an impressive company – within 3 years they have come from nothing to a complete mammography product suite that has state of the art image quality and good ergonomics. Medi-Future appears to be a company that knows what it is doing, and we are pleased to be associated with Medi-Future’s market entry.”

Brestige is a full-field digital mammography system that provides high productivity and image quality through innovative software. The user friendly design minimizes patient discomfort. The system is designed to allow rapid acquisition, with planned advanced applications such as Computer Aided Detection and tomosynthesis to be available in a later release.

WorkstationOne™ is a full-featured breast imaging workstation, with an emphasis on efficient reviewing workflow and expert viewing methodologies such as Tabar’s systematic viewing masks. WorkstationOne supports IHE mammography image profile and the display of CAD markers as well as GSPS graphic annotation. WorkstationOne is a software product that can be installed on an off-the-shelf general purpose computer with one or two gray-scale high resolution monitors and one color monitor.

About Medi-Future, Inc

Medi-Future is a global manufacturer of digital x-ray equipment focused on women’s breast care. Our core business is to develop a series of products for breast cancer, such as digital mammography with review workstation and stereotactic biopsy, moreover, next-generation tomosynthesis and CAD optimized for dense breast. We’re dedicated to building the world where all women across the globe improve the quality of life and lead their happy lives.

We’re creating women’s health and beauty.

Media Contact:

+82-31-776-0140

web: http://medi-future.com

E-mail : sales@medi-future.com

Three Palm Software Gets Canadian Medical Device Licence for Its Mammography Software Products

Los Gatos, California, USA – Feb. 24, 2009

Three Palm Software today announced that its WorkstationOne and CadOne mammography software products have been issued Canadian Medical Device Licences. This regulatory milestone clears the way for TPS to directly market its mammography software products within Canada.

WorkstationOne™ is a diagnostic breast imaging workstation software. WorkstationOne obtains breast imaging screening or diagnosis exams from PACS or Modalities; displays and manipulates the images for radiologists to perform interpretation task. WorkstationOne is developed with the goal of assisting radiologists to read digital mammograms efficiently. WorkstationOne supports IHE integration profiles; has the capability to store and retrieve user markup in an interchangeable format; as well as the ability to generate customizable recall and screening reports, which can also interface with a reporting system to generate an interpretation report. WorkstationOne also supports media exchange, film printing and 10-bit grayscale display on suitable monitors.

CadOne™ is a mammography CAD server. CadOne is designed to be used in mammography screening, in particular, with a digital data source (e.g., FFDM or CR for mammography). The workflow is that an acquisition device or PACS pushes the DICOM MG “For Processing” images from a mammography exam to CadOne via a DICOM storage service class, CadOne processes the images and generates a CAD report, and then pushes the report as DICOM SR via a DICOM storage service to one or more destinations.

Dexela Limited and Three Palm Software partner to deliver advanced mammography applications.

22^nd January 2009

Dexela Limited (London, UK) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with software developer Three Palm Software (Los Gatos, California) to market its WorkstationOne and CadOne software applications globally outside the United States. In addition, the companies plan to leverage Dexela’s 3D breast imaging technology and expertise (tomosynthesis) in the development of enhanced tomosynthesis workstation functionality and CAD applications.

Under the terms of the agreement, Dexela is the exclusive channel for WorkstationOne and CadOne in EMEA, Russia and India and will provide marketing and support services to manufacturers and distributors of FFDM and PACS solutions in these geographies.

Dexela is a market leading innovator of technologies for fast, low-dose X-ray imaging applications and is developing a range of technologies including 3D breast imaging for the early detection of breast cancer, known as Digital Breast Tomosynthesis.

About Dexela Limited

Dexela is developing accurate and sensitive 3D breast imaging technology for the early detection of cancer, known as Tomosynthesis. Conventional mammography has a significant rate of both false negatives and false positives, particularly in younger women. Dexela has developed innovative technology for 3D breast imaging, which promises to significantly reduce both false negatives and false positives, allowing the earlier detection of cancer while reducing the occurrence of call-backs. Dexela has developed powerful techniques to acquire, process and visualize data from 3D X-ray breast imaging. Dexela is playing a central role in this field through relationships with medical device manufacturers.

Media Enquiries:

Kirstie Mogilner

Dexela Limited

Wenlock Business Centre

50-52 Wharf Road

London, N1 7EU

sales@dexelaimaging.com

+44 (0)20 7148 3107 office

For more information about Dexela please visit http://www.dexelaimaging.com.

Three Palm Software Gets CE Mark for Its Mammo Software Products

Los Gatos, California, USA – Jan. 20, 2009

Three Palm Software (TPS) today announced that its WorkstationOne and CadOne mammography software products have been issued CE marking. This announcement coincides with the company receiving its ISO 13485:2003 Quality Management System certificate. This regulatory milestone clears the way for TPS to market its mammography software product within 30 countries of the European Union (EU).

CadOne™ is mammography CAD server. CadOne is offered to original equipment manufacturers (OEM) for integration into their product suites. CadOne is designed to be used in mammography screening, in particular, with digital data source (e.g., FFDM or CR for mammography). The workflow is that an acquisition device or PACS pushes the DICOM MG For Processing images from a mammography exam to CadOne via a DICOM storage service class, the CadOne™ processes the images and generates a CAD report, and then pushes the report as DICOM SR via a DICOM storage service to one or more destinations.

“Having the CE mark on our mammography products will give us a great boost into the European market,” said Three Palm Software CEO Patrick Heffernan. “We look forward to continuing our development initiatives focused on assisting radiologists to detect breast cancer more accurately and efficiently”.

Dr. Stergios Prapavesis, who has been leading the clinical beta testing for both WorkstationOne and CadOne in one of the most specialized radiology practice in Greece, said “WorkstationOne by Three Palm Software is remarkable, dedicated breast imaging software. It assists mammography interpretation by providing a set of flexible, powerful and unique tools that have been developed after consultation with expert mammo-radiologists. For example, the sequential side by side comparison using mirror masking in all views enhances perception of minute asymmetric lesions (a concept pioneered by Dr. Tabar), and the systematic all pixels technique examines the entire set of data at full resolution. These are achieved in a practical manner easily incorporated in a busy workflow. WorkstationOne has proved superior to any other viewing software we have tried and has become our tool of choice for mammography interpretation. We are also actively engaged in the development of the CadOne application and expect it will turn into an equally powerful and user friendly solution”.